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Georgians traveling to the northeastern province of Artvin to buy food, especially oil, have caused long queues in front of grocery stores.

Arriving at Artvin's Kemalpaşa district through the Sarp border crossing between the two countries, Georgians thronged the grocery markets to buy the foodstuffs that are much cheaper than in their own country due to the exchange rate.

Photographer Alp Alper and pilot Mustafa Yavuz have been traveling Turkey on a two-person gyrocopter and photographing Turkey's natural and historical beauties. 

Turkish police in the northeastern border province of Artvin detained two Georgians on Feb. 20 after one of them attempted to smuggle the other into Turkey in a luggage case. 

Some 100 villagers, who were trapped in their houses in the mountainous region of Turkey's Black Sea province of Artvin's Hopa district that was struck by heavy rain and floods, were saved three days later after the disaster. 

A five-year-old boy has gone missing after falling off a fire truck into flood water during the deadly floods and landslides which struck the Black Sea province of Artvin and left eight people dead.

The parents of five-year-old Taha Su have expressed their sorrow after Su fell into flood water and went missing on Aug. 24. 

With the Black Sea province of Artvin suffering floods after disastrous rain and landslides that killed eight people, experts believe the many hydroelectric power plants being constructed in the area and clogged culverts triggered the deadly phenomenon.

Turkish police seized 3.5 million packs of smuggled cigarettes, worth 22 million Turkish Liras, at the Sarp border gate in trucks crossing into Turkey from Georgia.

An amateur rower has arrived in Istanbul after completing an epic three month journey along the Black Sea coast, which he undertook to draw attention to the danger of nuclear plants in a region hit by a manic spree of ecology-damaging energy investments.